Clinic administrator jailed 16 weeks for stealing medicine to let ex-husband sell

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CLINIC ADMINISTRATOR JAILED 16 WEEKS FOR STEALING MEDICINE TO LET EX-HUSBAND SELL

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26 Dec 2014 - 11:18pm








A clinic administrator was jailed for 16 weeks for stealing cough syrup from the clinic she was working in to let her ex-husband sell.
Yam Bin Kwee needed money to use and kept pestering Chen Ruzhen, 40, to help him take the syrup.
Chen worked as an administrator at Radlink Medicare in Tampines Central 6. She was responsible for making orders for medicine from suppliers, and also taking charge of records of inventory movements between the clinic and a subsidiary.
She would then take the syrup and passed it to Yam to "help him in his business".
And after doing so, she would massage the information in the accounts and omit putting in the money she had misappropriated.
From 2011 to 2012, Chen passed a total of 482.6 litres of Dhasedyl syrup to Yam over 12 meetings and took between $400 and $600 from him each time.
Yesterday, Chen was jailed for 16 weeks for dishonestly misappropriating the syrup which was worth $4,593.93.
She pleaded guilty to eight proceeded charges, comprising four counts each under the Penal Code and Medicines Act respectively.
Health Sciences Authority prosecutor Amal Nasibah Salim said that Chen is the fourth clinic employee to misappropriate codeine-based syrup since 2010.
She also said that each 3.8-litre canister of the syrup could be sold for as much as $1,100.






District Judge Toh Yung Cheong said in his sentence that because there was a substantial amount of the syrup that was sold, it is possible that drug or substance abusers were able to get their hands on the syrup and said that Chen's actions could result in health and safety risks, and in the medicine being adulterated.
Defence counsel Tan Hee Joek, who is representing Chen, said she had made restitution of $602.41 earlier, but still could not return the balance as it would affect her former employer's accounts.
Chen is separated from Yam since 2004 but he has kept asking her to lend him money.
He also pestered her to help him take the syrup.
Chen could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined for each count of criminal breach of trust. The maximum penalty she faced for each Medicines Act offence was two years in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Yam is still missing.




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